Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped

Air-gapped private cloud for regulated customers

Google Distributed Cloud enables public sector organizations and regulated enterprises to deliver innovation by addressing strict data residency and security requirements.

Features

Full isolation

GDC's air-gapped solution does not require connectivity to Google Cloud or the public internet to manage the infrastructure, services, APIs, or tooling, and is built to remain disconnected in perpetuity. It is designed to support strict requirements in alignment with NIST SP 800-53-FedRAMP high security controls.

Integrated cloud services

Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped delivers advanced cloud services, including many of our data and machine learning technologies. Customers can use built-in AI solutions, such as Translation API, Speech-to-Text, or optical character recognition (OCR) which are features of our Vertex AI product that follows our AI Principles. The solution is built to be extensible and enables a catalog of independent software vendors' (ISVs) applications through our marketplace.

Open ecosystem

Google Distributed Cloud is designed around Google Cloud’s open cloud strategy. It is built on the Kubernetes API, and uses industry-leading open source components in the platform and managed services. Open software accelerates developer adoption by leveraging existing expertise and tools versus requiring customers to learn new, proprietary systems.

Flexible hardware options

Google Distributed Cloud provides customers with industry-leading flexibility for hardware including general purpose compute and GPUs. Customers can start small with an appliance or as few as four racks and grow to hundreds as their workloads grow. The air-gapped offering provides a fully redundant, high-availability architecture for mission-critical systems.

Configurable operations

While the technology at the core of every Google Distributed Cloud deployment is the same, the operating model can be configured to each customer’s unique needs. Customers enjoy a consistent developer experience and access to a robust set of managed services, while being able to tailor deployment and operations to address their specific requirements. Google Distributed Cloud's air-gapped solution can be operated by Google, a trusted partner, or a combination of the two with the ability to customize elements like operator citizenship and clearances.

How It Works

Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped includes the hardware, software, local control plane, and operational tooling necessary to deploy, operate, scale, and secure a complete private managed cloud.

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What is Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped?

Common Uses

AI-enabled offline visual and audio translation

Optimize in secure, offline environments with AI-enabled translation

Use the latest optical character recognition and speech-to-text technologies developed by Google Cloud while running in a fully disconnected environment for live translation of text within images, PDFs, or audio files. The translated text is summarized within the UI and available for download, reducing the need for manual transcription and translation while also saving valuable time and resources.

Ingest (Batch Processing) workflow

    Unlock the potential of your offline data with our intelligent translation solutions.

    Optimize in secure, offline environments with AI-enabled translation

    Use the latest optical character recognition and speech-to-text technologies developed by Google Cloud while running in a fully disconnected environment for live translation of text within images, PDFs, or audio files. The translated text is summarized within the UI and available for download, reducing the need for manual transcription and translation while also saving valuable time and resources.

    Ingest (Batch Processing) workflow

      Unlock the potential of your offline data with our intelligent translation solutions.

      AI-enabled offline video analysis

      Automate analysis of video content and real time streams

      Our ready-to-deploy end-to-end video analysis platform that features AI-enabled search using natural language, intelligent video ingestion that supports both batch uploads and real-time streams supporting the majority video and stream types, and an advanced model repository serving Google’s latest models, open source, and custom models. It also includes a fully automated workflow management system that orchestrates the full solution lifecycle, and extensive reporting and metrics capabilities to deliver full visibility into the solution components.

      Video Ingestion (Batch + Real Time) workflow

        Transform your offline video analysis with our AI-enabled solution.

        Automate analysis of video content and real time streams

        Our ready-to-deploy end-to-end video analysis platform that features AI-enabled search using natural language, intelligent video ingestion that supports both batch uploads and real-time streams supporting the majority video and stream types, and an advanced model repository serving Google’s latest models, open source, and custom models. It also includes a fully automated workflow management system that orchestrates the full solution lifecycle, and extensive reporting and metrics capabilities to deliver full visibility into the solution components.

        Video Ingestion (Batch + Real Time) workflow

          Transform your offline video analysis with our AI-enabled solution.

          Generative AI

          Need to quickly find relevant content from on-prem data?

          GDC offers a generative AI search packaged solution enabled by Gemma, our state-of-the-art open models. The solution is designed to help customers easily retrieve and analyze data at the edge or on-premises with GDC. The generative AI search packaged solution is a ready-to-deploy on-prem conversational search solution that uses the Gemma 7B model. The solution will be available in H2 2024.

          Ingest Batch Processing and Query Real Time workflow

          Using natural language search can boost employee productivity and knowledge sharing while ensuring data remains on-prem.

          Need to quickly find relevant content from on-prem data?

          GDC offers a generative AI search packaged solution enabled by Gemma, our state-of-the-art open models. The solution is designed to help customers easily retrieve and analyze data at the edge or on-premises with GDC. The generative AI search packaged solution is a ready-to-deploy on-prem conversational search solution that uses the Gemma 7B model. The solution will be available in H2 2024.

          Ingest Batch Processing and Query Real Time workflow

          Using natural language search can boost employee productivity and knowledge sharing while ensuring data remains on-prem.

          Pricing

          How GDC air-gapped pricing works Pricing for GDC air-gapped is based on the services you intend to consume, and the capacity that you will use to run those services.
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          How GDC air-gapped pricing works

          Pricing for GDC air-gapped is based on the services you intend to consume, and the capacity that you will use to run those services.

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          Partnerships with leading independent software solutions including Canonical, CIQ, Cockroach Labs, Confluent, Elastic, IS Decisions, Maria DB, Starburst, Syntasa, and Trellix to validate compatible solutions for easy in air-gapped environments.

          Available Managed GDC Providers, including Clarence, T-Systems, and WWT, specialize in deploying, operating, and managing Google Distributed Cloud services.

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          Partners & Integration

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          • elastic
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          • Palo Alto Networks logo
          • Starburst logo
          • clarence logo
          • T-Systems logo
          • World Wide Technology logo
          • Citrix logo
          • Cockroach Labs logo
          • Confluent logo
          • Couchbase logo
          • CrowdStrike logo
          • Dynatrace logo
          • Ericsson logo
          • GitLab logo
          • Grafana Labs logo
          • HashiCorp logo
          • IS Decisions logo
          • MariaDB logo
          • Neo4j logo
          • Nokia logo
          • Redis logo
          • SAP logo
          • Splunk logo
          • Standard AI logo
          • Syntasa logo
          • tenable logo
          • Trellix logo
          • Cisco logo
          • Intel logo
          • NetApp logo
          • nvidia logo
          • Palo Alto Networks logo
          • Thales logo

          Visit our partner directory to learn about these Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped partners.

          FAQ

          What is a Google Cloud Ready Partner and how does my company become one?

          The Google Cloud Ready - Distributed Cloud recognizes partner solutions that have met a core set of functional and interoperability requirements. Through the process, partners closely collaborate with Google to provide new integrations to best support customer use cases. Learn more in the Google Cloud Ready - Distributed Cloud Partner Validation Guide.

          The Managed GDC Providers (MGP) is a strategic partnership initiative by Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program designed to accelerate Google Distributed Cloud adoption by collaborating with specialized partners who are skilled in deploying, operating, and managing services. These MGPs form a comprehensive ecosystem, providing end-to-end Google Distributed Cloud solutions, including top-tier support and robust data security. By offering Google Distributed Cloud as a managed service, MGPs empower businesses to scale efficiently while maintaining high service quality.

          Becoming an MGP is by invitation only. Interested partners should contact your account team or email [email protected] to express their interest and undergo an initial technical and business capability qualification.

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